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This research sheds light on the literature of Fatima Yousef Al-Ali through a reading of her story "My Aunt Moza" as an early model of Arab feminist short fiction. The study begins by examining the extent to which the story embodies narrative techniques, the characteristics of the writer's artistic experience, and its unique semantic and aesthetic dimensions. It aims to uncover the narrative and semantic structures of the text and to clarify how narrative techniques are employed to express the issues addressed in the narrative discourse. The study adopts a structuralist approach, drawing on the narratology concepts of Roland Barthes and Gérard Genette, and Greimas's actantial model, focusing on narrative functions, characters, time, place, the narrator, and paratextual elements. It concludes that the story employs a dense symbolic structure, making place and the first-person narrator central elements in generating meaning. Furthermore, it reveals a feminist consciousness founded on both knowledge and emotion, championing the values of love and inclusion without severing ties with social values, thus placing the text within the framework of avant-garde literature committed to societal issues.

Keywords: Fatima Yousuf Al-Ali, My Aunt Moza, Structuralism, Feminist Narrative., The story

     

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